{"id":19574,"date":"2026-03-04T03:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rep-chip-roy-headed-to-runoff-in-texas-ag-race\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T03:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:46:39","slug":"rep-chip-roy-headed-to-runoff-in-texas-ag-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rep-chip-roy-headed-to-runoff-in-texas-ag-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Chip Roy headed to runoff in Texas AG race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy will advance to a runoff in the race to replace Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n<p>He will face state Sen. Mayes Middleton in late May.<\/p>\n<p>The competitive primary turned into a fealty test to President Donald Trump. Former DOJ attorney Aaron Reitz and Middleton slammed Roy for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/01\/24\/chip-roy-donald-trump-threats-00200372?fbclid=IwY2xjawP5ifNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR60uqmVC4nhfNyNBfQXXUukkPUOCuIdnJI-gIYsTjGT5vldq-1srH-qcUsZkw_aem_Fd_USs9yKejW3hhPevsP5g\" target=\"_blank\">breaking with Trump in the past<\/a> and calling for Attorney General Ken Paxton <a href=\"https:\/\/roy.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/rep-chip-roy-released-following-statement-texas-ag-ken-paxton\" target=\"_blank\">to resign<\/a> after he faced charges of bribery and abuse, while brandishing their own MAGA bona fides.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made no endorsement in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Roy \u2014 the House Freedom Caucus policy chair who has represented Texas\u2019 21st congressional district since 2019 \u2014 earned a reputation in Congress as a true conservative ideologue. He has led in polling and fundraising, and has been endorsed by well-known conservatives like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and fellow Freedom Caucus representatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Chip Roy will advance to a runoff in the race to replace Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. He will face state Sen. Mayes Middleton in late May. The competitive primary turned into a fealty test to President Donald Trump. Former DOJ attorney Aaron Reitz and Middleton slammed Roy for breaking with Trump in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}